defects

Activision offering swap or Wiifund on Guitar Hero III disks

[photopress:slash.jpg,full,center] We know there are a lot of you out there, so we had to make sure you didn’t miss this. If you’re a Wii-loving Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock player, yo

AT&T U-verse boxes may contain exploding batteries made by a company that doesn't exist anymore

Guess what? There are 17,000 outdoor U-verse boxes containing backup batteries made by Quebecois company Avestor, a company that no longer exists due to bankruptcy. Wait there’s more. These batt

Ghetto Gadgets

Chris Stevens at CNET Crave has an amusing article that examines the increasingly poor build quality of modern electronics. It discusses why as technology has evolved, quality control seems to have di